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(beep)

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(screaming)

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(jazzy intro)

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How does it feel to be

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the same sex as Donald Trump?

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How does it feel to be

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the same sex as Sarah Palin?

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How does it feel to be

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the same sex as Michelle Bachman?

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How does it feel to be the

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same sex as anybody you disagree with?

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Why does it even matter

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whether or not you're the

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same gender as somebody else?

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I mean, I'm also the same

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gender as Abraham Lincoln, Einstein,

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and the guy who introduced

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chocolate to the Western world.

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So what are you even getting

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at with this question?

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Are you trying to say Donald Trump

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is bad, and Donald Trump

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is a man, therefore men are bad?

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Why do you hate rom-coms?

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Or do you just feel like you

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need to hate them?

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Everybody likes The Notebook,

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everybody likes Beyoncé.

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It's just a fact.

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Men hate romantic comedies

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for the same reason you

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hate video games with

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over-sexualized female characters.

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The men in these movies are

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always willing to sacrifice

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their careers, their dreams,

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even their lives to win

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the lead females' affection.

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Now I don't have any empirical

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data to back this up, but

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it seems to me that

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romantic comedies and

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romance movies in general

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cause women to have unrealistic

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expectations of men and what

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love should be like, and these

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become the expectations

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that men have to live up to,

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and it's unfair.

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Feminists like to bitch

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about poor representation of women

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in media intended for men

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because they promote body issues

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and shit like that

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And I agree, to at least, an extent

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But it's not any better for men

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When we're expected to be Prince Charming,

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ready and willing to sacrifice themselves

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physically, mentally, and emotionally

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And we're called selfish for daring to

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have our own desires

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or even misogynistic for daring to draw

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attention to our own problems.

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These movies appeal to the female fantasy

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of having a night in shinning armor

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swear their entire existence to pleasing

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them, and thus reinforce these notions

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within their target audience of women

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like you that you somehow deserve

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to have your boyfriends and husbands

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give up everything that makes them

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who they are and basically dehumanize

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themselves for your pleasure and

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devote 100% of their time and energy

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to you. The fact that some of you

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watching this scoffing at what I

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just said only proves my point.

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You have fooled yourself into thinking

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that I'm somehow the one whose being

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selfish when I object to the notion

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that men should be expected to cave

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into all of your demands, for the sake of

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your perverted idealistic conception

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of love. And I have no doubts that

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some of you will accuse me of being

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bitter at some ex girlfriend for saying

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that, but I'm not and I will

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pre-emptively characterize such an

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argument as out cropping of the

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very mentality that I'm talking about.

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You expect